Monday PM Showers/Storms

Scattered showers and t-storms this afternoon. They’re moving west to east. Check radar and the other links below. Certainly some heavy rain in this humid air, along with the possibility of gusty winds and small hail (though the freezing level is pretty high) in bigger storms. Lower Michigan is in the General T-Storm Outlook from the Storm Prediction Center. There is a “See Text” for E. Wisconsin. SPC does mention Lower Michigan: “…MID/UPR MS VLY INTO MI TODAY/TNGT… TSTMS NOW OVER ERN IA AND SRN/ERN WI SHOULD DIMINISH AS DIURNAL HEATING WEAKENS/RE-ORIENTS LLJ AND AS MB UPR SYSTEM CONTINUES ENEWD /REF MCD 1613/. SOME REJUVENATION MAY OCCUR WITH SFC HEATING ALONG OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES EWD INTO NRN IL/IND…AND LWR MI LATER TODAY. ALTHOUGH THE STORMS MAY POSE A THREAT FOR ISOLD SVR WIND/HAIL GIVEN FAVORABLE THERMODYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT…WEAK/NEGATIVE LARGE-SCALE FORCING FOR ASCENT SHOULD LIMIT STORM COVERAGE/SVR RISK. There was some wind damage from storms in southern Wisconsin earlier this morning. Severe weather here in Lower Michigan is unlikely. I’ll update when I can this PM/evening. At 2:20 pm – heaviest storms in far NE Allegan (moving into far NW Barry Co. and in Ionia Co. 77° dewpoint in G.R. and Holland at noon – highest of the year, I believe and close to as high as it gets. Very muggy. Rainfall as of 2 pm: 1.03″ Daybreak Church (Hudsonville), 1 in Ada in an hour, 0.56″ Big Rapids, 0.65″ Grandville, 0.54″ Hersey (Osceola Co.), 0.52″ Allendale, 0.36″ Muskegon, 0.32″ WOOD-TV (Heritage Hill, G.R.), 0.30″ Grand Haven (BilMar’s on the lake). Storms are moving west to east.

The morning run of the European gives G.R. another 0.17″ of rain tonight, 0.01″ Weds. PM (may not happen), 0.55″ Thursday night into Friday…more rain possible over the coming weekend. Still no 90°. Four months to Christmas Day.

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I have 84 degrees here at noon with a feels like reading of 94. Defiantly warm out there in the sun, cooler over by the thunderstorms. Only 73 in Muskegon right now. Clouds are just beginning to roll in here, so my temps may top out in the Mid 80′s

Sunshine when I stepped into the shower, pitch black house when I got out. I feel like there has been quite a few of these days this summer, where it gets dark around noon because of cloud cover. Some light rumbles here too. Took the little outside today around 10. Had to come back in after only an hour. We were both sweating buckets and wheezing. Humidity is an asthmatics enemy!

Second cloudiest, right behind Washington. GR and Wyoming are 29 and 30 in the top 101 list of cities with the cloudiest days. I try really hard no see it as such a bad thing when considering hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes (frequent ones), severe drought or flood as an alternative to moving somewhere else. I will admit though, I am a positive person mostly and it has been a little hard for even me to grasp onto summer this year. In my mind the weather has been nice, yes, but it just didn’t ever turn into summer. It’s like spring held on for too long.

Power outages are popping up in Belmont and Rockford. Looks like a good chunk of downtown Rockford has no power. One thing to note is the exit ramp to Post Drive in in the outage area as well so the traffic light may be out there

Just receive a good little thunderstorm here on the NW side some good thunder a lightning and a heavy rain fall. Will check the rain gauge later to see how much. Temp was 85° and now down to 71° so no 90’s here today.
SlimJim

Wow the temp has falling 10 degrees out at thee YARDofBRICKS nice cold front! Time to fire up the grill and drink some more sprites!! And for the 90′s back back back going going gone feel u next summer!! INDYY!!!

THREAT CONTINUES THIS AFTERNOON FOR ISOLATED SEVERE WINDS AND
LOCALIZED FLOODING…NORTH OF I-94. STRONG STRONG UPDRAFTS WILL
CONTINUE TO FORM AS CONVECTION MOVES EAST INTO HIGH INSTABILITY.
SOUTHERLY FLOW HAS ADVECTED LOW TO MID 70S SFC DEW POINTS AND
AFTERNOON HEATING SHOULD RESULT IN TEMPS REACHING UPPER
80S…YIELDING SFC BASED LIFTED INDICES OF MINUS 8 TO 10. DEEP
LAYER SHEAR OF ONLY 20 TO 25 KNOTS WILL LIMIT STORM
ORGANIZATION…BUT DESCENDING CORES COULD PRODUCE WET MICROBURSTS
AS LAPS SOUNDINGS SHOW DRY WEDGE AROUND 500 MB AND DRY ADIABATIC
SUB CLOUD LAYER.

FLOODING THREAT HAS BEEN LIMITED SO FAR BY STORM MOVEMENT AROUND
25 KNOTS BUT SOME TRAINING OF STORMS IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AS
LINE OF STORMS BECOMES ORIENTED MORE PARALLEL TO THE FLOW.
RAINFALL RATES HAVE BEEN ESTIMATED BY RADAR AROUND 1.5 INCHES AND
PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES WILL BE AROUND 1.8 INCHES.

So much for the forecast of heat and an outside chance of rain. Drove all the way to Kent City from GR to do some painting after seeing the morning forecast. I was prepared for a lot of heat and humidity with maybe a shortened day due to the scattered afternoon showers(30%)Barely made it to noon when the heavens opened up and washed half of my work onto the pavement. A huge waste of time and gas! It was 68 degrees when I drove back home about 1:00!

I agree! Yesterday they were forecasting this rain for tomorrow night/ Wednesday a.m. but this morning I read the NWS forecast discussion and they had mentioned a much faster cold frontal passage. If you read the NWS forecast discussions and then watch the meteorologists on tv they never collaborate with each other.

This morning, I led a kayak tour of invasive species on Gun Lake But while I’m in that mode – let me share something with all of you:

The east side of the state is battling Phragmites (frag-mighties) – a 6-to-12-foot-tall grass-looking plant, that right now has a big purple plume on the top (turns to silver in the fall). It’s working its way into West Michigan, and even if you don’t care that it crowds out beneficial plants that feed and support wildlife – you OUGHT to care because Phragmites can do THIS:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2kZ2sUQPuE

Last year, they had to evacuate the Oakland Crossings Mall, because a Phragmites fire was raging just behind it (the TV reports called it a “grass fire” but this stuff is no ordinary grass)

It likes to grow in ditches/low spots. If you notice it near your house – kill it. Don’t let it spread.